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| Title: | Hatin’s Dome and the Temple of Sun (Carlsbad Caverns, N.M.) |
| Date/circa: | 1932? - 1936? | |
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| Subjects: | Caves - New Mexico - Carlsbad Caverns; Carlsbad Caverns (N.M.) | |
| Notes: | Beneath the dome is the shrine of the sun god before which range the numerous coralline stalagmites. According to Navajo mythology, Hatin decorated it with bits of pearl and abalone shell which the messenger Wind carried aloft for them. … ...The constellation had been completed when Coyote, the Son of Darkness, interfered and scattered the star material over the sky in disorderly manner. | |
| Negative#: | 2006 |
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